Who we are

Stop It Now! Australia is a child sexual abuse prevention program which works with adults concerned about their own, or someone else’s sexual thoughts or behaviours towards children. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse identified a gap in preventative interventions for potential perpetrators. Stop It Now! was highlighted as a potential model to adopt in the National Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Strategy and this has been reflected in the Strategy released in September 2021.

Jesuit Social Services, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, are building the foundations of a Stop It Now! Australia helpline staffed by highly skilled practitioners. We are working closely with professionals, as well as victim-survivors of child sexual abuse, to ensure their knowledge and voice help shape the service and the response.

Support us

Stop It Now! offers a nonjudgmental service for anyone concerned about child sexual abuse and those wanting to seek support and guidance to make positive behaviour changes to build an offence-free life.

Every day, children and young people across Australia suffer sexual abuse, most commonly at the hands of someone they know. We work to prevent abuse from happening in the first place – and to prevent it from happening again if it already has. Each and every donation is vital to us and our work to prevent child sexual abuse.

Please donate now to support our work. Every gift, large and small, helps us achieve our vision of a world in which children’s right to live free from abuse and exploitation becomes a reality.